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May 27, 2004

Up and running: MovableType 3.0   Tweet

Up and running: version 3.0 of Movable Type Publishing Platform. Having said that, apart from the fact that the installation/upgrading manual could be a little clearer om some points, I'll have to find out what the new release can do more. One good step forward is the possibility to delete comments in batches, and setting up rules voor registered comment authors. I'm sure a lot of bloggers are fed up now with spam comments, like porn or viagra advertisements. Last week I had an average of a hundred and fifty of those bloody things per day - posted by a moron who calls himself lipitor. Until 3.0D I had to delete them one by one before rebuilding the files, be it through the Movable Type user interface, or in PHPMyAdmin. I think there must be a query to delete all comments in MySQL if posted by a certain commenter, but as I am using MySQL itself not often enough, I haven't got a clue what kind of query.
Anyway, in the new comment filter there's a possibility to do so. You can list comments displayed to certain e-mail adresses, physical names, or ip-adresses. What's more, three different statuses can be attached to the comments: approved, pending approval, banned. And the possibuility to check or uncheck all comments before deleting, in rows from twenty or more. Beautiful!
From the same menu you can call lists of all comments - coming up with editing or deleting fields and buttons - from any commenter, all comments on any entry, all comments form a certain ip-adress, all comments by e-mail adress, if given by commenter.
What more can be done with 3.0, I'll have to check out later, but it looks good.

Posted: May 27, 2004 01:02 AM (285 words).  Tweet 

Leon Krijnen
Verslaggever bij BN DeStem. Schrijft over defensie, fotografie, mensen, de zaterdag column en doet de techblog Interface. Publiceert op DutchCowboys/Leon. Maakt ook een serie over mooie Brabantse café's. Op Krijnen.Com publiceert hij vanaf 1995 van alles wat. Rijdt racefiets of een van zijn oldtimers, Dorus Dream, of de ouwe trouwe W 180. Gek op Apple.
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